English [ edit ] Wikipedia
Etymology [ edit ] news paper
Pronunciation [ edit ] newspaper (countable and uncountable plural newspapers
( countable ) A publication , usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles .
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 18, in The China Governess [1]
‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers ?
( uncountable , countable ) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
Synonyms [ edit ]
( publication ) : daily for a daily newspaper ), paper , rag (derogatory )( paper on which newspapers are printed ) : newsprint
Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
publication
Afrikaans: koerant
Albanian: gazetë (sq) f
Arabic: جَرِيدَة f jarīda ), صَحِيفَة f ṣaḥīfa )
Egyptian Arabic: جرنان m gornan ), جورنال m gornal ) ( Alexandria )
Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʿertʿ )
Asturian: periódicu m
Azeri: qəzet (az)
Bashkir: гәзит gäzit )
Basque: egunkari
Belarusian: газе́та f hazjéta )
Bengali: সংবাদপত্র shôngbadpôtrô )
Breton: kazetenn (br) f
Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m véstnik )
Burmese: ကော်လံ (my) (kaulam ), သတင်းစာ (my) (sa.tang:ca )
Catalan: diari (ca) m periòdic (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 報紙 报纸 bou3 zi2 )
Hakka: 報紙 报纸 po-chṳ́ ), 新聞紙 新闻纸 sîn-vùn-chṳ́ )
Mandarin: 報紙 (zh) , 报纸 (zh) (bàozhǐ ), 報 (zh) , 报 (zh) (bào ), 報章 (zh) , 报章 (zh) (bàozhāng )
Min Nan: 報紙 (zh-min-nan) , 报纸 pò-chóa ), 新聞 (zh-min-nan) , 新闻 sin-bûn ), 新聞紙 新闻纸 sin-bûn-chóa )
Chuukese: simpung
Czech: noviny (cs) f pl
Danish: avis (da) c dagblad (da) n tidsskrift (da) c
Dutch: krant (nl) f nieuwsblad n dagblad (nl) n
Erzya: куляконёв kuljakonjov )
Esperanto: ĵurnalo
Estonian: ajaleht (et) , leht (et)
Faroese: blað n tíðindablað n dagblað n
Finnish: sanomalehti (fi) , lehti (fi)
French: journal (fr) m journaux (fr) pl
Galician: xornal (gl) m
Georgian: გაზეთი gazeti )
German: Zeitung (de) f
Greek: εφημερίδα (el) f efimerída )
Hebrew: עִיתּוֹן (he) (‘itón )
Hindi: अख़बार (hi) m axbār ), समाचारपत्र (hi) (samācār-patr ), वृत्तपत्र (hi) (vruttpatra )
Hungarian: hírlap (hu) , újság (hu)
Icelandic: dagblað (is) n fréttablað n
Ido: jurnalo (io)
Inari Sami: aavis
Indonesian: koran (id)
Irish: nuachtán (ga) m
Italian: giornale (it) m quotidiano (it) m
Japanese: 新聞 (ja) (しんぶん, shinbun )
Norman: gâzette f
Javanese: ariwara ariwarta ariwarti koran (jv)
Kalmyk: сонин sonin )
Kannada: ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vr̥ttapatrike ), ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (samācāra patrike ), ವಾರ್ತಾಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vārtāpatrike )
Kazakh: газет (kk) (gazet )
Khmer: កាសែត (km) (kaasaet ), សារពត៌មាន saa poadɑɑmien )
Korean: 신문 (ko) (sinmun ) (新聞 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: rojname (ku) f nûçename (ku) f
Sorani: ڕۆژنامە řojname )
Kyrgyz: гезит (ky) (gezit )
Lao: ໜັງສືພິມ nang sư̄ phim )
Latin: acta diurna n pl
Latvian: avīze (lv) f laikraksts (lv) m
Lithuanian: laikraštis (lt) m
Lü: ᦐᧂᦉᦹᦘᦲᧄ ṅangṡuephiim )
Macedonian: весник m vesnik )
Malay: akhbar surat khabar
Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (ml) (dinapatraṃ )
Maltese: ġurnal m
Maori: nūpepa
Marathi: वृत्तपत्र vruttpatra )
Mongolian: сонин (mn) (sonin )
Navajo: aseezį́ binaaltsoos haneʼ binaaltsoos
Norwegian: avis (no)
Novial: jurnale
Okinawan: かみはぶ kamihabu )
Ossetian: газет gazet )
Persian: روزنامه (fa) (ruz-nâme )
Pohnpeian: simpung
Polish: gazeta (pl) f
Portuguese: jornal (pt) m
Punjabi: ਅਖਬਾਰ f akhbār ), ਸਮਾਚਾਰ ਪੱਤਰ m samācār pattar )
Romanian: ziar (ro) , ziare n pl
Russian: газе́та (ru) f gazéta )
Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: но̀вине f pl
Roman: nòvine (sh) f pl
Sinhalese: පුවත්පත puvatpata ), පත්තරේ pattarē )
Skolt Sami: gaˊzaat gaˊzeâˊt
Slovak: noviny f pl
Slovene: časopis (sl) m časnik (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: casnik m
Sotho: koranta (st)
Spanish: periódico (es) m
Swahili: gazeti (sw) , magazeti pl ( noun 5/6 )
Swedish: dagstidning (sv) c morgontidning (sv) c kvällstidning (sv) c tidning (sv)
Tagalog: dyariyo
Tajik: газета (tg) (gazeta ), рӯзнома (tg) (rüznoma )
Tamil: நாளிதழ் (ta) (nāḷitaḻ )
Tatar: газета ğazeta )
Telugu: వార్తాపత్రిక (te) (vārtāpatrika )
Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (năngsĕupim )
Tibetan: ཚག་པར tshag par )
Tok Pisin: niuspepa
Turkish: gazete (tr) , günce (tr) , gaste (tr) ( colloquial )
Turkmen: gazet
Ukrainian: газе́та (uk) f hazéta )
Urdu: اخبار m axbār ), سماچار پتر m samācār-patr )
Uzbek: roʻznoma (uz) , gazeta (uz)
Vietnamese: tờ báo báo (vi)
Welsh: papur newydd (cy) m newyddiadur m
West Frisian: krante c
Yiddish: צײַטונג f tsáytung )
Zazaki: rocname f
paper on which newspapers are printed
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newspaper (third-person singular simple present newspapers present participle newspapering simple past and past participle newspapered
( transitive ) To cover with newspaper.
She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
( intransitive , transitive ) To engage in the business of journalism (usually used only in the gerund , newspapering)
He newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towms.
( transitive , obsolete ) to harrass in newspaper articles.
He was newspapered out of public life.
Usage notes [ edit ]
The harrass sense is usually in passive constructions.
